Pupils in the Bingley area are being advised not to walk alone in public following two abduction attempts on girls.

Keighley Police Detective Inspector Shaun Berry urged schoolchildren to walk with friends after two incidents in the last eight days.

Meanwhile, Bingley Grammar School has issued "common-sense" guidelines to children following the latest incident which happened on Wednesday morning.

As previously reported in the Telegraph & Argus police said a man tried to entice a 12-year-old girl into his silver-coloured car in Primrose Bank, Gilstead. She refused and ran off.

And on Wednesday, June 8, a man in a silver-coloured car approached a 16-year-old girl in a school uniform in Fernbank Drive, Bingley, and asked her to get in.

When she refused he offered to pay her and she ran away and told her parents.

Police have linked the two incidents

DI Berry said: "The message is to advise youngsters to walk in groups and never to get into a car with someone they do not know and trust. It is an old message, but no less important for it."

John Patterson, head teacher at Bingley Grammar School, said: "We have broad, common-sense guidelines which we issue at times like this. I am putting a note in the registers for teachers to read out to their forms to make them aware of the situation."

And David Horn, head teacher of Beckfoot School, said the school was working closely with the police.

At Lady Lane Park School, Bingley, head teacher Sue Greenwood was telling pupils about the incidents and urging them to be cautious and sensible.

DI Berry said the latest incident happened at 8am. He said: "The man pulled up in a silver car and tried to entice her in, but she did the right thing, refused and ran off. We have now had two of these incidents with descriptions of a similar car and man.

"Neither of the girls was touched but because the two incidents are similar, in the same area and we have similar descriptions, we are linking the two."

In the latest incident the man was described as in his late 30s or early 40s, white, with a bald head or spiked whitish hair.

Anyone with information should contact police on (01535) 617059.